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System Builders Manual for Version 2.1.5 of the NIST DMIS Test Suite

August 19, 2009
Author(s)
Thomas R. Kramer, John A. Horst
This is a system builders manual for the NIST DMIS Test Suite, version 2.1.5. The purpose of the manual is to help system builders use software provided in the test suite for building systems that implement DMIS (the Dimensional Measuring Interface

Users Manual for Version 2.1.5 of the NIST DMIS Test Suite (for DMIS 5.1)

August 19, 2009
Author(s)
Thomas R. Kramer, John A. Horst
The NIST DMIS Test Suite, version 2.1.5, is described. The test suite is intended to serve two purposes, 1) to help users and vendors use version 5.1 of DMIS (the Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard) and 2) to provide utilities and test files for

Proprietary Design Information and Fruit Pies

November 7, 2008
Author(s)
John A. Horst
The proliferation of proprietary design info exchange formats is causing high costs to manufacturers. The standards solution is offered as both attainable and worth the effort. A design information exchange standards development life-cycle is proposed.

Interoperability Testing for Shop Floor Measurement

December 28, 2007
Author(s)
Frederick M. Proctor, William G. Rippey, John A. Horst, Joseph Falco, Thomas Kramer
Manufactured parts are typically inspected to ensure quality. Inspection involves equipment and software from many different vendors, and interoperability is a major problem faced by manufacturers. The I++ Dimensional Measuring Equipment (DME)

A Roadmap For Metrology Interoperability

December 4, 2006
Author(s)
John A. Horst, S McSpadden
An International Metrology Interoperability Summit (IMIS) was held March 28 - 30, 2006 at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD. Workers and decision makers in a variety of dimensional metrology corporations and organizations worldwide participated. The first day

Trajectory Generation for an On-Road Autonomous Vehicle

June 26, 2006
Author(s)
John A. Horst, Anthony J. Barbera
We describe an algorithm that generates a smooth trajectory (position, velocity, and acceleration) for a non-holonomic vehicle autonomously navigating within the constraints of lanes in a road. The technique models both vehicle paths and lane segments as

The Critical Value of NIST to the Worldwide Metrology Interoperability Effort

December 31, 2004
Author(s)
John A. Horst, R Waite
The uniqueness and importance of the role of NIST to the worldwide metrology interoperability effort is explained and defended. The highlights of accomplishments by NIST in support of metrology interoperability are recounted, followed by a brief history of

Task Analysis of Autonomous On-road Driving

October 28, 2004
Author(s)
Tony Barbera, John A. Horst, Craig I. Schlenoff, David Aha
The Real-time Control System (RCS) Methodology has evolved over a number of years as a technique to capture task knowledge and organize it into a framework conducive to implementation in computer control systems. The fundamental premise of this methodology

Task Analysis of Autonomous On-Road Driving

October 1, 2004
Author(s)
Anthony J. Barbera, John A. Horst, Craig I. Schlenoff, David Aha
The Real-time Control System (RCS) Methodology has evolved over a number of years as a technique to capture task knowledge and organize it into a framework conducive to implementation in computer control systems. The fundamental premise of this methodology

Feature-Based Inspection and Control System

March 8, 2004
Author(s)
Thomas Kramer, John A. Horst, Hui-Min Huang, Elena R. Messina, Frederick M. Proctor, Harry A. Scott
This report describes an architecture and software system for automatically performing process planning and control code generation for cutting and inspecting prismatic piece parts. This "Feature-Based Inspection and Control System" (FBICS) consists of

User's Manual for Version 1.0 of the NIST DME Interface Test Suite for Facilitating Implementations of Version 1.1 of the I++ DME Interface Specification

August 21, 2003
Author(s)
John A. Horst, Thomas R. Kramer, Joseph A. Falco, Keith A. Stouffer, Hui-Min Huang, Frederick M. Proctor, Albert J. Wavering, Chengying Liu
This user's manual describes version 1.0 of the NIST Dimensional Measuring Equipment (DME) interface test suite intended to support implementations of version 1.1 of the I++ DME specification.

Distributed Testing of an Equipment-Level Interface Specification

December 31, 2002
Author(s)
Joseph Falco, John A. Horst, Hui-Min Huang, Thomas Kramer, Frederick M. Proctor, Keith A. Stouffer, Albert J. Wavering
A test suite for an key interface within a dimensional measuring system (coordinate measuring machine or CMM) is presented. The test suite consists of test procedures, test definitions, and various testing utilities. A real-time, distributed test utilizing

A Native Intelligence Metric for Artificial Systems

August 1, 2002
Author(s)
John A. Horst
We define native intelligence as the specified complexity inherent in the information content of an artificial system. The artificial system is defined as a system that can be encoded in some general purpose language, expressed minimally as some finite